how good she’d feel. It was the first time the veteran performer sang in more than six months after receiving a harrowing double lung transplant in August. “I’ve only sung for my doctor and nurses informally,” she told The Post about feeling “inspired” to sing for an audience again. “I’m rebuilding my voice post-transplant — I’ve basically been relearning how to sing.”Since 2012, Temtchine has been living with pulmonary hypertension (PH), a rare and serious disorder in which a high level of blood pressure in the arteries leads to an enlargement of the heart.
Hers was three times its normal size. “I was a walking corpse. Doctors had no idea how or why I was alive,” she said of the time immediately after her diagnosis.
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